To browse Academia. This catalogue provides a comprehensive inventory of Roman and Early Byzantine gold coins found in Britain and Ireland, extending previous works by including hoards and recent discoveries. It organizes finds geographically and thematically, addressing the complexities of territorial boundaries during the Roman occupation. The study emphasizes the significance of these coins in understanding economic and social dynamics, including their use as currency and jewelry.
This paper is a reworking and extension of the work first started 50 years ago in the south of France in an attempt to understand the distribution of Roman coin finds in Britain and the West of Europe. The paper re-examines the earlier material with extra sites added for comparison. Britain The conference proceedings. Haarer et al. Coinage is probably the most tangible form of material culture dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries a.
As a result, numismatic evidence, and particularly hoards data, has played a pivotal role in dating the 'end' of Roman Britain. This article summarises the numismatic evidence for the period and illustrates how both hoards and site finds can be used to explore the chronology and nature of coin use throughout the diocese of Britannia and its apparent collapse in the post-Roman period. Taken from F. Haarer, R. Collins, K. Fitzpatrick-Matthews, S. Moorhead, D.
Walton eds. This paper considers a new corpus of , Roman coins site finds which have been recorded from England and Wales. The corpus provides British and regional means to aid in the preparation of coin reports in line with Historic England guidelines, along with spatial data providing new opportunities for research. The methods of data collection will be detailed and some of the possibilities this dataset can provide presented through a number of case studies. Through the consideration of applied numismatic analyses, the social distribution of the material and, crucially, the spatial distribution of Roman coinage, we can identify new trends and patterns.
Case studies evaluating the fourth century will emphasise the changing importance of settlements in Roman Britain and identify those linked with the late Roman state. Furthermore, the retraction of coinage distributions in the second half of the fourth century will be explored. Building on the national and site type means explored within the paper, the full dataset has been made available in a range of forms on the Archaeology Data Service and in an interactive map developed by Maploom.
